L 0 K 1 on Nostr: I really like the idea of a side by side parallel. From the hebrew/greek/whatever, ...
I really like the idea of a side by side parallel. From the hebrew/greek/whatever, with the phonetics and transliterations notes beside the original texts.
I read the Qur'an in a highly regarded (haha, no, really, trusted by Sunnis in Morocco anyhow) parallel edition. To be honest, that book is pretty lame for the most part, like a weaksauce copy of the first 4 books of the New Testament mashed together with bits of Deuteronomy and Numbers and repeatedly talking about this notion of the punishment of the sinners eg Sodom and Gomorrah and a couple of other examples.
Honestly, I did not know when I first encountered the Book of Enoch that it was even a Christian text, nor that it had anything to do with the Apocrypha, or that it had been almost lost thanks to the Cattle Tick church psychopaths (in the negative way ofc).
It was this fancy looking illuminated version I was first shown, and it was too fancy for me to even read it. Gold leaf edges and pure white leather binding, and a big edition, like 30x50cm sorta size, mostly light glossy pages and pretty illustrations between chapters.
The person that showed it to me was a hairy fairy new agey type so I just wrote it off as some fanciful thing that had some mention of astrology in it.
Oh boy it's so much more than that, and not that at all really. I mean, a whole chapter talks about the sun and moon and the 12 signs of the zodiac, in rather clumsy, quite abbreviated form. "The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya really gives you the idea you need to read it, especially if you are Christian.
I read the Qur'an in a highly regarded (haha, no, really, trusted by Sunnis in Morocco anyhow) parallel edition. To be honest, that book is pretty lame for the most part, like a weaksauce copy of the first 4 books of the New Testament mashed together with bits of Deuteronomy and Numbers and repeatedly talking about this notion of the punishment of the sinners eg Sodom and Gomorrah and a couple of other examples.
Honestly, I did not know when I first encountered the Book of Enoch that it was even a Christian text, nor that it had anything to do with the Apocrypha, or that it had been almost lost thanks to the Cattle Tick church psychopaths (in the negative way ofc).
It was this fancy looking illuminated version I was first shown, and it was too fancy for me to even read it. Gold leaf edges and pure white leather binding, and a big edition, like 30x50cm sorta size, mostly light glossy pages and pretty illustrations between chapters.
The person that showed it to me was a hairy fairy new agey type so I just wrote it off as some fanciful thing that had some mention of astrology in it.
Oh boy it's so much more than that, and not that at all really. I mean, a whole chapter talks about the sun and moon and the 12 signs of the zodiac, in rather clumsy, quite abbreviated form. "The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya really gives you the idea you need to read it, especially if you are Christian.